Realizing the potential of immigrant youth /
The well-being and productivity of immigrant youth has become one of the most important global issues of our times as a result of mass migration and resettlement. In this unique volume, leading scholars from multiple nations and disciplines provide a state-of-the-art overview of contemporary researc...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012
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Series: | Jacobs Foundation series on adolescence.
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Summary: | The well-being and productivity of immigrant youth has become one of the most important global issues of our times as a result of mass migration and resettlement. In this unique volume, leading scholars from multiple nations and disciplines provide a state-of-the-art overview of contemporary research on immigrant youth and delineate the most promising future directions for research on their success, suggesting implications for policy and interventions that will benefit host societies as well as immigrant youth. The contributors to Realizing the Potential of Immigrant Youth include many of the leading international experts on migration, acculturation, intergroup issues and immigrant youth development, with contributions from the fields of child development, demography, economics, education, immigrant mental health, social psychology and sociology. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781139518789 113951878X 1139516922 9781139516921 9781139094696 1139094696 1107231140 9781107231146 1139508210 9781139508216 1139517856 9781139517850 1139515276 9781139515276 1139514350 9781139514354 |
Language: | English. |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |